Is CITY OF WESTMINSTER's water safe to drink?
CITY OF WESTMINSTER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 35,256 people get their water from it, across 10,157 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF WESTMINSTER has 25 violations on record in total, 10 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,954th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 85th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF WESTMINSTER compares within MD
Among the 93 MD systems in this dataset, the average is 3.3 health-based violations - CITY OF WESTMINSTER's 10 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF WESTMINSTER is from 2020-01-01 (health-based: 2018-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF WESTMINSTER's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
CITY OF WESTMINSTER's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF WESTMINSTER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,954th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.